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I’m Sonia Kapadia and I’m going for it all. I’m an entrepreneur, business woman, wife, and soon to be mom. I’m definitely not the stereotype you see in the tech world these days, and I don’t think I’ll fit that pattern anytime soon, but I’ve been working hard at trying to break the mold and build a successful startup. In this column, I plan to talk about the intersection of being a woman entrepreneur and balancing family life. It hasn’t been easy, and I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I’m excited to share my journey with all of you.

One of the issues I’ve been struggling with these days is what am I going to do when the baby comes? I get this question from others on a daily basis. And I receive all sorts of unsolicited comments from others either encouraging me that things will be fine: “You can make it work”, or discouraging me saying: “Well your business will surely suffer,” or “Sounds like you’re going to take some serious time off for awhile.” It’s a fair question to ask I guess and I try not to get offended when others are pessimistic about me not being able to balance come Baby K’s arrival. Because you see, I’ve been working full force on Taste Savant, my first baby, for the last year. And as my belly is getting bigger, I haven’t been slowing down, but instead have been speeding up. So it begs the question: What will I actually do when this child comes?

How will I balance moving Taste Savant forward with an expanding family? I’ve asked myself this time and time again, and to be honest, I don’t really know. I’m just going to go with it. Does that sound foolish? Silly? Facetious? Flippant? It’s not meant to sound like that at all. The fact of the matter is that I don’t really know what to expect when my little one arrives. I know there will be lots of sleepless nights as well as lots of wonderful moments (much like when I first started Taste Savant). But, I don’t know how much time I’ll have to myself or how much time I’ll be able to put towards Taste Savant once Baby K arrives. And because I don’t know all these things, it’s hard to plan. And so, I’ve told myself, “Just go with it.”

There’s obviously no maternity leave when you have your own business. When you’re the Founder & CEO you can’t really hand over all the reins over to someone else to run your business. And so if the business has to slow down a little bit while I welcome my baby into the world, I’m totally fine with that. I’ll figure it out. And I’m sure I’ll respond to emails between feedings and during naptimes, I’ll get on conference calls during moments of quiet, and I’ll progress as best as I can.

When I first started out on Taste Savant, like most entrepreneurs, I didn’t really know what I was doing. That feeling is emerging again as my first child is on his way. There’s no manual on how to do this, believe me I’ve looked. With the startup, I learned by doing and asking others for advice. I made lots of mistakes along the way, but kept going. So why not take the same attitude I did when I first started down this road of entrepreneurship? I’m going to figure it out as I go, learn as I go, work as hard as I can, and just go with it.

Let’s see how it all pans out with juggling these two babies. I’ll be keeping you updated!